As a direct to consumer insulation manufacturer we’ve talked to a lot of homeowners over the years. Quite often people don’t even know what to…
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The Benefits of Wool Sound Absorption Panels: A Sustainable Solution for Acoustic Comfort
In our increasingly noisy world, sound management has become all the talk in the design of homes, offices, and public spaces. A healthy, innovative and…
Sustainability: A View Steeped in Experience and Common Sense
Simply sustainable is the PC version of our view on sustainability. What we really want to say is we are no bullshit sustainability. A review…
Customers are Loving our new PRO batts.
We have always had a simple concept: take the most dynamic fiber on the planet and make it available for those who want to use it…
Double Stud Wall vs. Continuous Exterior Insulation
A common attribute among high-performance homes is a well-insulated wall. The code minimums for R-Value will depend on where you live but regardless of climate…
Too Much Insulation?
As we’ve written about before, there are major issues with only using R-Value to assess insulation and your overall thermal envelope. In this post, we’ll…
Rockwool has broken the law in the first major settled case of greenwashing in the construction industry
Local media in Copenhagen reports Rockwool has broken the law and settled the case. The article goes on to mention other possible police reports in…
When Building Your Way is the Right Way
Stefan Milkowski and his family care deeply about building structures that are functional, durable, and beautiful. So when the time came to design and build…
Building a Climate Resilient, High Performance Home
The climate crisis is changing how many architects design and build homes. Extreme weather impacts everything from a home’s location to building material selection. One…
Tax Credits for Insulation
[Please note! We here at Havelock Wool are wool experts, not tax experts! If you have any questions on this tax credit please do your…
Caution: Foam is Not an Air Seal
If you are using spray foam as an air seal for your home, you will have problems down the road. Spray foam should never be…
DIY Van Window Covers
The importance of using high-quality window covers in a van conversion cannot be understated. Their use is four-fold: temperature regulation, sound dampening, privacy, and theft…
Why Do We Build Houses?
It is hot, getting hotter, in the summer, cold and incredibly snowy at times in winter and torrential rain seems to feature in the news…
R-Value, U-Value and a Common Insulation Myth
In the insulation world, we all get caught up on R-Value, despite its shortcomings (of which we’ve written before). Another thermal performance measure worth attention…
A Tale of Two Climates
Yestermorrow implements Havelock Wool in Vermont and Utah Editor’s Note… The Yestermorrow Design Build School is one the coolest places to learn how to build…
What’s New at Havelock Wool
We’ve been hard at work making additions to our product line that address the needs of the trade, which we loosely define as architects, builders,…
Who Can Install My Havelock Wool?
We get this question a lot. The immediate answer is “You can!” We’ve gone to great lengths to make our insulation DIY friendly, especially our…
Real People, Real Wool, Real Walls
Our friend Jon insulates his workspace in the mountains of western North Carolina Jon, what’s the background on this project? We live in the mountains…
Common Applications for Havelock Wool
You asked, we listened. Here are detailed architectural drawings for some common applications for Havelock Wool insulation in your home. To produce these drawings, we…
How to Choose an Insulation Installer
For too long the consensus view has been that insulation doesn’t matter. ‘Just go the cheapest route, get it in the walls and cover it…
Insulation Terms….Make Informed Decisions
As our business grows we meet more people everyday interested in healthy building. Some are building experts but often people are just beginning to learn…
What’s so cool about wool?
Someone recently highlighted an interesting fact to us. If (insert big company name here e.g. 3M or Dupont) made a fiber that was renewable, managed…
Restoration and Insulation
There is an argument that the ultimate in sustainability is to ‘use what you have’. This certainly applies to the homes we live in. Home…
Stop Using Foam Insulation
As we’ve written before, we think foam insulation has NO place in a home. It is a toxic, high embodied carbon shortcut to insulating properly….
Vapor and Condensation – The nitty gritty (Updated April 2022)
At the avant-garde of building science there is an increasingly lively debate around the correct wall assembly to manage vapor diffusion. The conversation, though dense…
Aligned Interests
In this week’s podcast, we check in with Christine, a homeowner, mother of two and a repeat purchaser of Havelock Wool. Her compelling perspective reinforces…
Insulation Cost in Context (Updated May 2021)
Do the slightest amount of research and you will quickly find the cost of insulation varies greatly. Purchasing power and materials both play a role….
Borderline fun to install insulation
This week we sat down with our friend Cameron Reith, founder of Greenhome Solutions, a green building product supplier in Seattle. We had a great…
A Quick Look at Havelock Wool Operations
Our friend Jarrod Tocci recently dropped by our facility to take a tour and catch up with our sales guru Josh Schohn. Jarrod by way…
The Simple Path to Sustainable Building
Are sustainable building practices becoming more common? This week’s podcast is an in-depth conversation with our friend Mike Horgan of Horgan Design Build. Mike is…